Floor and wall construction.



Patented Feb. 11, 1913.

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d S N m W e APPLICATION FILED MAR.23,1912.

J. MEINKEN.

FLOUR'AND WALL CONSTRUCTION.

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MEINKEN, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR F ONE-HALF TO A. C. F.

MEINKEN, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

FLOOR AND WALL CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 11, 1913}- Application filed March 23, 1912. Serial No. 685,860.

. To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MEINKEN, a citizen of the United States, residin atnSt. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and tate of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Floor and Wall Construction, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in concrete wall and floor construction, among its objects being to provide means for interlocking a concrete wall center with exterior wall plates; a further object being to provide means whereby a hollow tiling center of concrete, wood fiber plaster, .terra-cotta, or other suitable material, may be held in spaced position with associating exterior wall plates to permit filling being placed between said tiling and'plates, means being provided for interlocking said plates and tiling, the invention consisting further in the improved insulating and reinforcing means hereinafter more particularly described.

The invention consists in the features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a sectional view of meeting walls and connected floor constructed according to my invention; Fig. 2 is a perspective view, broken away, of the outside portion of connected side walls; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through a portion of a side wall built up in accordance with my invention; Fig. 4 is a vertical section, broken away, through a portion of a side wall built up in accordance with my invention; and Figs. 5 and 6 are detail views of cooperating clamp members forming part of my invention.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a plurality of hollow tiling A for building up the centers of the outside walls and floors. Each tile A is formed u on its sides with longitudinally extending anges 2 and 3. Each tile is also formed upon its underside with convex portions/t and on its upper sides with corresponding concavit-ies 5 whereby when a plurality of the tiles are laid one upon another, as indicated in Fi 4, the convex surfaces 4 of one tile will t into the concavities 5 of the next tile below.

Each tiling preferably has an insulating covering 6 as of suitably prepared paper. The outer and inner portions of the wall are formed by corresponding plates B, preferably of cement. The said plates are formed with horizontal and vertical intersecting openings 7 and 8 for the purposes of insulation and lightness. Reinforcing rods 9 are suitably embedded in the plates, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3. Each of the walls B is formed on its inner side with a plurality of vertical tenons 10, said tenons preferably standing between the openings 8 and arranged in inwardly directed pairs to form opposed grooves 11 for the purpose hereinafter specifically set forth. The outer and inner wall plates preferably each carry a lining 12 corresponding to the covering 6 of the tiling.

In utilizing my features of invention in buildin connecting walls and floors I preferably first take a pluralityof the tiling A and lay them on top of each other in longi-.

' ating clamp members C and D. The clamp member 0 is, as shown, in the form of a bar 13 with laterally extending end arms 14 and 15, the arm 14 being longer than the arm 15, and each arm being formed with a downwardly hooked portion 16 to'fit over the flanges 2 of the tiling and a downwardly extending finger 17 to fit under the flange 2 and to assist in interlocking said clamp member with the tiling. Constructed to cooperate with the clamp members C are the clamp members D, each clamping member D being formed with hooked ends 18 adapted to be fitted over the tenons 10 of the wall plates and extend into the grooves 11 formed by said tenons. Said clamping member upon its opposite edge is formed with a downwardly projecting flange 19 to slidably fit over the bar 13 of the member C.

In operation, the clamping members C are first supported upon the flanges 2 of thethat on account of one arm of the bracket member C being longer than the other'arm of the bracket member and the member D being shaped to accord therewith, a slidingv wedge connection is formed between the clamping members C and D. Thus with the clamping members interlocked the sliding of the member C in one direction will draw the plates toward the tiling and the sliding of said member in the opposite direction will separate the plates from thetiling.

, The clamping members thus form an ad- 'justable connection between the plates and tiling to maintain the desired distance between said plates and tiling and to main-- tain the plates in a straight line from corner to corner. With the inner and outer wall plates held in spaced position with the tiling by the clamping members, the spaces be tween the plates and tiling may be filled with slush concrete 20 placed therein in the regular way, said concrete extending into the grooves of the plates and tiling formed by the ribs 2 and 3 of the tiling and the tenons 10 of the plates constituting an interlocked wall between the plates and tiling.

In building up the concrete wall 20 I may crete 20.

Where the walls are connected with the fioor the same may be built up as shown in Fig. 1, wherein I show the bottom of the floor formed with plates B. On top of said bottom floor plates is placed the concrete forming an extension of the concrete in the side walls. Within the floor concrete are positioned spaced tiling A around and between which the concrete extends, suitable reinforcing rods 26 being preferably embedded within the concrete of the floor. Upon the concrete floor may be laid the ordinary flooring 27 secured to sills 28 embedded in the concrete. The reinforcing members 23 are particularly designed, as shown in Fig. 1, to use in connection with the connected wall and floor portions of my construction.

For the purpose of satisfactorily supporting door casings 29 in connection with my construction I preferably employ the means shown in Fig. 1. I show said casing supporting means arranged in connection with an inside wall made up of spaced plates B with a concrete filling, interlocking, as

shown, with the tenons 10 of said plates. Arranged adjacent the end of the wall constituting a door opening, are a pair of strips 30. spaced apart at their adjacent ends and formed on'.their inner sides wit a wedge shaped opening 31 to receive cement which forms an extension of the cement between the plates of the adjacent .wall. A strip of paper or other suitable material is placed within-the opening 31 covering the opening 32 between the strips and preventing theescape of concrete, and a strip 33. as oft-in placed between the strips 30 and wall and extending throu h the concrete 20 to hold the strips 30 slightly separated from the plates B of the wall. Lateral extension and contraction of the strips 32 toward and from each other is thus permitted. The cas ing 29 is built up in the usual manner around said strips and the adjacent end of said wall.

I claim as my invention:

1. A wall of the class'described'comprising a plurality of superimposedtiling, wall plates upon opposite sides thereof and spaced therefrom, and an adjustable connection between said tiling and plates, said adjustable connection comprising relatively sliding wedge members. I

2. A wall of the class described comprising superimposed tiling, plates upon opposite sides thereof and spaced therefrom,

clamping means slidably supported by said tiling and plates, a wedge connection between said clamping members adjustable by the relative sliding of said members, and a filling between said plates and tiling.

3. A wall of the class described comprising a plurality of superimposed hollow tiling formed upon their sides with longitudinally extending ribs, hollow wall plates upon opposite. sides of said tiling formed with horizontal and vertical intersecting openings, said plates being spaced from said tiling and formed upon their inner sides with vertically extending ribs, cooperating clampin members having wedge connection and slidably supported upon the ribs of said tiling and plate" whereby to be adjustable by the relative slieing of said members, and a filling between said tiling and plates. V

1. A wall of the class described comprising a plurality of superimposed tiling, a plate spaced therefrom, an insulating covering interlocking'with'the inner face of said plate, and a filling between said plate and tiling interlocking with said tiling and the insulated face of said plate.

5. A wall of the class described comprising a plurality of tiling arranged in series to form a wall, a plate spaced therefrom, an

insulating covering for each of said tiling, an insulating covering for the inner face of said plate, and. a filling between said plate and tiling interlockin faces of said plates an tiling.

6. A wall of the class described compriswith the insulated ing a plurality of tiling arranged in a. horivertically slidable upon the inner face of 10 zontal series to form a wall, and formed said plate.

with longitudinally extending outer grooves, In testimony whereof I aflix my signature a plate spaced therefrom and formed zlvith in presence of two witnesses vertical grooves on their inner faces an an adjustable connection consisting of rela- JOHN MEINKEN' tively slidable members, one of said nem- Witnesses:

bers being slidable in the horizontal grooves S. JOHNSON,

of said tiling and the other member being H. SMITH. 

